2015-03-31T20:54:51Z2005 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposalhttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/5259
Title: 2005 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Authors: Ortiz-Torres, Ruben
Abstract: Art has often been considered an "agent of transformation." However, what happens when the art and the spaces where we
present it are in a state of flux and transformation?
During the twentieth century, mechanics allowed us to incorporate notions of speed and motion into visual
representation. New technologies give us the possibility to
create forms in transformation, avoiding the limitations of
particularity and singularity. These mutant forms might
respond to a public space that is mutating too. Forms can
be combined and recombined seamlessly as if we were
altering their genetic or molecular composition. The public
space has become more public in its virtual representation.
Cities exist not just in reality but also in a mythical
construction that we inhabit from elsewhere. Through web
cams and the Internet we can access certain specific
locations without having to be there. Here, radical
hypothetical interventions within the public space and
certain communities can actually become a reality.2007-01-23T15:24:47Z